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Add to SafariWhen comparing Spotify vs Musicolet Music Player, the Slant community recommends Spotify for most people. In the question“What are the best audio players for Android?” Spotify is ranked 5th while Musicolet Music Player is ranked 24th. The most important reason people chose Spotify is:
Spotify has over 20 million songs and arguably the largest collection out of its competitors and usually has the fastest access to new music. The Spotify desktop client allows local music files to be imported with the option of syncing with a mobile device which largely mitigates the issue of missing artists.
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Question Ranking
Pros
Pro Huge collection of music and fast access to newly released songs
Spotify has over 20 million songs and arguably the largest collection out of its competitors and usually has the fastest access to new music.
The Spotify desktop client allows local music files to be imported with the option of syncing with a mobile device which largely mitigates the issue of missing artists.
Pro Related artists
Helps to find new authors based on your previous picks
Pro Client's functionality can be extended via third-party apps
Spotify desktop client allows for third-party apps. They extend the functionality of Spotify and many of them offer new ways of discovering music. Noteworthy apps include Moodagent, Last.fm, Swarm.fm, ShareMyPlaylists, The Hype Machine, We Are Hunted, Shuffler.fm.
Pro Curated playlists
Public playlists on Spotify created by other people are great for finding new music.
Pro Has a free version
A free, ad-supported account allows streaming from an extensive library of music.
Pro Weekly Discover playlist uses a great algorithm
A playlist generated by Spotify based on your listening habits and released every Monday. The algorithm used by this playlist is great and stands out from its competitors.
Pro Free, and no ads
You can optionally support the developer and pay for pro features, but the free version isn't missing any core features.
Pro Fully customizable
Pro Android Auto support
Pro Simple way to switch play-modes
Intuitive options to decide what to do when song or "queue" ends.
Pro Built-in tag editor
Pro Plays popular audio formats and relatively obscure audio formats
Supports many audio formats natively, as well as all formats supported by the system decoder of the Android device in use.
Pro Respects privacy; works offline
The app doesn't include the Internet permission, so no user data can be sent to the app author.
Pro Has good playlist manipulation capabilities for adding and reordering songs
You can multi-select songs to add to a playlist, and you can use your finger to drag one or multiple songs to the desired position in the playlist, for example. There is also a command to insert a selection of songs into the current playlist after the current song.
Pro Supports the use of up to 20 playlists simultaneously (called "queues" in the app)
Also allows saving unlimited playlists for later use, and playlists can be exported as external .m3u files.
Pro Can display embedded song lyrics and external .lrc file lyrics, including synchronized lyrics
Cons
Con Free account have lots of ads
If you hate commercials, you would buy Premium or go on using something else.
Con Discovery is terrible
The discovery algorithm is poor and does not learn fast enough. Not obvious how to train it.
Con Poor audio quality
There's a high range of bitrates and most of vary from average to bad.
Con Not open source
